Thank you, I pronounce “smiles” like it has two syllables.
I can’t say it like Ricardo Montalban in “Fantasy Island”.
Isn’t it obvious? It’s {:-Df
“Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I’m worried about the difference between wrong and fun.”
~P.J. O’Rourke~
Thbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt!!!
I love quoting the Classics.
Bill D. Cat
The late, great Jack Smith of the Los Angeles Times had a column on this and came up with:
broughamed
A brougham is some type of carriage, so if you can turn it into a verb and past-tense it…
Ah, Arnold all I did was input your question with the proper corrections to it into a search engine 
Actually, pneumonoultramicorscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is in the OED, so there. That’s where I saw it, at least.’
To paraphrase: If you want to eat aquatic animals, (you must) catch aquatic animals, aquatic animals catch (other) aquatic animals for the same reason.
Surgo–
Of course it is.
Every word that has ever appeared in the English language is on OED.
Yeah, where it’s listed as a fake word.
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams
Jim where Bill had had, “had had”, had had “had”; “had had” was right.
Nine repetitions. Beat that!
Now it’s my turn to look dopey; I can’t parse that one at all.
I can’t even make it to the "Had had had"s; “Jim where Bill” loses me. Does it need a comma after “Jim?” That would just about make sense.
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
Don’t feel bad Da Ace, I don’t get that one either. And I had to read the explanation for the fish fish fish one to sink in, but I’m not sure I agree that it’s all one sentence. That one I think I’d write as, “If you want to eat fish, fish fish. Fish fish fish for the same reason.” Maybe I’m wrong though. Could be. It’s happened before
Quote: Jim where Bill had had, “had had”, had had “had”; “had had” was right.
Sorry, Greg, but that should be:
Jim where Bill had had “had had”, had had “had”; “had had” had had the teacher’s approval.
Eleven.
Bob the Random Expert
“If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.”
I think perhaps an explanation of the Had’s isnecessary for some of our not lessintelligent but hperhaps less dilligent coposyters -
TO paraphrase:
Jim, where bill had written “had had” (jim) had written “had”; “had Had” had received the teacher’s approval.
“C’mon, it’s not even tomorrow yet…” - Rupert
If you need a graphic solution, http:\ alk.to\Piglet
Greg Charles, you can go much, much farther
with the word ‘that.’
Thanks, BigRoryG; as I’d suspected, a comma was missing.
“Jim where Bill” does not mean the same thing as “Jim, where Bill.” The ‘had had “had had” and had had “had”’ wasn’t as tough to figure out.
…but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans!
Shayna–all you need for the fish thing is a semi-colon, thusly:
“If you want to eat fish, fish fish; fish fish fish for the same reason.”
Still workin’ on the had had madness, though.
Oh. Wasn’t paying attention. I get it now.
…jeez. Put THAT one in your freshman English class and watch the brains seize up!!